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Android TV boxes aren’t like other set-top streaming devices, as anyone who’s done a little comparison shopping can tell you. That’s because Android TV, unlike Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Apple TV, isn’t predicated on a top-down development model. It’s a TV entertainment platform based on Android and managed by Google, but distributed among third-party OEMs which are given free reign to tweak, customize, and optimize Android TV as they see fit.

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How to Transfer from Android to iPhoneYou’ve finally done it. You’ve ditched your old Android phone for Apple’s latest and greatest iPhone. Whether you’ve been planning the switch to iOS for a while or made a spur-of-the-moment decision, you’re past the point of no return. But now you’re faced with a dilemma: how to transfer your apps, music, contacts, photos, and videos from your old Android phone to your new iPhone.

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ARM, which was acquired by Softbank in 2016, is a British holding company that develops and licenses the system-on-chip (SoC) architectures in billions of smartphones, set-top boxes, and Internet of Things (IoT) gizmos. Its technologies form the foundation of SoCs from Samsung, MediaTek, and HiSilicon, and its partners have shipped more than 125 billion chips to date. (ARM expects that number to reach 200 billion by 2021.)

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You might not have ever heard of Dirac, but if you’ve used a Xiaomi, OPPO, Huawei, or OnePlus phone in recent years, chances are you’ve heard their software in action. The Swedish audio firm works with an increasing number of device makers to optimize the sound quality of smartphone loudspeakers and headphone outputs. Dirac’s smartphone suite, Power Sound, boosts the base and enhances the clarity of speakers by correcting impulse, phase, and magnitude frequency response.

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If there were any doubts that Samsung had lost its touch, the South Korean company quelled them at Mobile World Congress 2018… mostly. On Sunday, the smartphone maker formally announced the Galaxy S9 and S9+, the newest phones in its storied Galaxy series.

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Asus announced the Asus 5 series at Mobile World Congress 2018, a lineup of new high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices: The ZenFone 5, which feature Qualcomm’s 845 chip; the ZenFone 5, a cheaper, slightly less powerful variant of the ZenFone 5Z; and the ZenFone 5Q, which packs four cameras. Here’s everything you need to know.

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High-end Android tablets may have largely gone the way of the dodo, but that hasn’t dissuaded Huawei. At the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, the company took the wraps off the MediaPad M5 series, a range of premium slates with high-resolution screens, speedy processors, and Android Oreo. The MediaPad M5 8, M5 (10.8), and M5 10 (8.4) are successors to 2016’s MediaPad M2, and it’s easy to see the family resemblance.

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Leave it to Finnish company HMD Global, which just came off a wildly successful year (it sold 70 million smartphones in 2017), to unveil a new Android Go smartphone, a feature phone, three new flagships, and a first-of-its-kind Android One partnership with Google. At Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, HMD Global pulled no punches with the Nokia 8 Sirocco, its most powerful smartphone to date; the Nokia 7 Plus and the new Nokia 6; the Nokia 1; and the Nokia 8810 Reloaded.

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On the eve of Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, Chinese smartphone maker TCL took the wraps off a menagerie of new devices on Saturday. In addition to the Alcatel 5, Alcatel 3, and Alcatel 1 Series smartphones that the company teased at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in January, it also unveiled two Android tables, the 1T 10 and 1T7, and an Android Oreo (Go edition) smartphone, the Alcatel 1X.

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LG didn’t hold a press conference at Mobile World Congress this year, but that didn’t stop the South Korean electronics giant from trying to steal some of the competition’s thunder. The company announced the LG V30S this week, an enhanced variant of last year’s V30 that bears ThinQ branding. Not coincidentally, the LG V30S, like the Google Assistant-powered LG ThinQ speaker LG unveiled in late 2017, puts AI first and foremost.

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Mobile World Conference, the world’s largest gathering of smartphone OEMs, chipmakers, and telecom companies, is just weeks away. Ahead of the festivities, Qualcomm took the wraps off a slew of technologies it’ll be highlighting at the show, including a multi-device Bluetooth audio feature for Snapdragon chipsets, a new artificial intelligence platform, a refreshed mobile VR headset reference design, and Always Connected PCs. Here’s what you need to know.

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In January, Google announced Google Pay, an umbrella brand for its mobile and web payments platforms. It brings all of the search giant’s services under one roof, and on Tuesday, Google kicked off the global rolloutBefore Google Pay, Google’s payments platforms ran the gamut. In 2015, Google spun off Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay, in-app payments, and online checkout features into a separate app and service — Android Pay.

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The next major version of Android, Android P, might be weeks away, but each passing day brings new breadcrumbs. One of the focuses of Android P appears to be protecting user privacy. Yesterday, we wrote about how Android P will impose limitations on “idle” background apps that request access to the camera. Following up on that, we also discovered an Android Open Source Project (AOSP) commit merged that same day that prevents idle background apps from accessing the microphone.

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Google isn’t letting Google Phone, a customized version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) dialer with a few added features, stagnate. In recent months, it’s been updated with real-time spam protection, caller ID, call blocking, visual voicemail (with transcription support on some carriers), and a local directory feature that shows top search results for phone numbers that aren’t in your contact list.

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Android P, the next major version of Android, could be weeks away from an official unveiling, and although its core user-facing features are still unknown to us, we are discovering many little tidbits thanks to Android’s open source nature. We know that it’ll let carriers hide signal strength and define how they’re displayed in the status bar, for example, and we’ve uncovered evidence that Google may remove developer access to undocumented and hidden APIs.

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The Google Dialer, for folks who aren’t familiar, is a customized version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) phone app with a few extra features. Compatible Nexus and Pixel devices get Google Duo video call integration, real-time spam protection, caller ID, call blocking, visual voicemail (with transcription support on some carriers), and a local directory feature that shows search results for phone numbers that aren’t in your contact list.

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Back in November 2017, we wrote about an in-development Microsoft app for iOS and Android that let users quickly transfer pics and videos to a Windows 10 PC. Now, Microsoft Garage, Microsoft’s skunkworks lab for experimental mobile apps, has released it publicly. It’s called Photos Companion, and it’s available for iOS and Android devices starting today.

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Think 4G LTE is fast? Wait until you try 5G. On Wednesday, Qualcomm took the wraps off the X24, a new 5G LTE modem that supports download speeds of up to 2Gbps. The X24, which is the world’s first modem built on a 7nm FinFET manufacturing process, supports Category 20 LTE with 7X carrier aggregation and 4×4 MIMO on up to five aggregated LTE carriers.

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Apple’s iPhone X and the Essential Phone have a controversial feature in common: A “notch” cutout near the top of the phones’ screens that accommodates front-facing cameras, proximity sensors, and, in iPhone X’s case, 3D facial recognition scanners. Google’s set to embrace the trend — according to a report in Bloomberg, the tech giant’s overhauling Android with support for a “new generation of smartphones” with atypical displays.

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ASUS’s ZenFone 5 smartphone lineup, which dates back to the Android Jelly Bean days, hasn’t seen a refresh since 2014. But the company’s said to be prepping a trio of new ZenFone 5 smartphones ahead of an unveiling at Mobile World Congress 2018, and one member of the new family, the ASUS ZenFone 5 Lite, broke cover on social media this week.

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OnePlus’s pattern of releasing limited-edition variants of its flagship phones continued with the OnePlus 5T, which saw no fewer than three: The OnePlus 5T Star Wars Edition, the OnePlus 5T Sandstone White, and the OnePlus 5T Lava Red. The OnePlus 5T Lava Red has been available exclusively in Asia since its launch last year, but that’s changing soon. On Monday, OnePlus announced that the OnePlus 5T Lava Red will come to the US, Canada, and Europe.

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Google kicks off the beginning of every month with an Android Security Bulletin, the newest of which went live Monday alongside patches for Pixel and Nexus devices. It’s accompanied by a list of exploits addressed, and factory images and over-the-air update files for the Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 2, Pixel XL, Pixel, Pixel C, Nexus 6P, and Nexus 5X.

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The long-running bootloop dispute against LG has come to an end. Ars Technica reports that the company has settled arbitration claims stemming from a lawsuit over faulty LG G4, LG V10, Nexus 5X, LG G5, and LG V20 smartphones. Clients of the firm that filed the original lawsuit, Girard Gibbs, will receive either $425 in cash or a $700 rebate toward the purchase of a new LG phone, according to the settlement webpage.

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